Creating Interesting Encounters for D&D
641How to create interesting encounters for D&D. In this video I go over the methods I use and show an example where I create a real encounter for an existing campaign I am running.
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The encounter featured in the video went well, it did indeed end up being a fight, and the party had the Galeb-Dur destroyed by the end of the first round, it never even got a chance to attack. The earth elementals however were far more effective against the party. Eventually they were all destroyed, and the party expended resources and a couple party members were quite wounded by the end of it. In the end, the difficulty was very close to my expectation.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:24 Random vs Set Encounters
3:31 Tying to Theme or Setting
4:15 Tying to the PC's
5:08 Tying to the campaign
6:02 Interesting terrain
6:41 Dealing with CR
9:20 Set up and difficulty
11:29 Non-combat aspects
12:25 Encounter design example
15:50 The encounter idea
19:26 Picking Terrain
20:56 Analyzing the creatures
22:46 Analysis of difficulty
23:26 Setting it up
26:47 Encounter summary
27:38 Wrap Up
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